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Hercules made love to Iole, but she gave him the
repulse, and so he went and assaulted Oechalia. Iole
threw herself headlong down from the wall, but the
whiffling of the wind under her garments broke the
fall, and she had no hurt.—This story is in Nicias
Maleotes.
Valerius Torquatus was the Romans' general in the war
they had with the Tuscans; who, upon the sight of Clusia,
the daughter of the Tuscan king, fell in love with her, and
when he found he could do no good on't, laid siege to the
city. Clusia, upon this, threw herself headlong from a
tower; but Venus was so careful of her, that by the playing of the wind in the folds of her garments, she was
wafted safe to the ground. Torquatus, however, offered
her violence, and for so doing he was banished by a public
decree into the isle of Corsica.—Theophilus, in the Third
Book of his Italian History.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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